Maud Linder
2021
Paul Merton's Weird and Wonderful World of Early Cinema
Paul Merton
Paul Merton, Neil Brand
Paul Merton goes in search of the origins of screen comedy in the forgotten world of silent cinema - not in Hollywood, but closer to home in pre-1914 Britain and France. Revealing the unknown stars and lost masterpieces, he brings to life the pioneering techniques and optical inventiveness of the virtuosos who mastered a new art form. With a playful eye and comic sense of timing, Merton combines the role of presenter and director to recreate the weird and wonderful world that is early European cinema in a series of cinematic experiments of his own.
Paul Merton's Weird and Wonderful World of Early Cinema
En compagnie de Max Linder
Maud Linder
Max Linder, René Clair
Pioneering comedy legend Max Linder wrote, produced, directed and starred in Seven Years Bad Luck. Hilarious misadventures begin when Max' butler, chasing a maid, breaks an expensive full-length mirror. The butler persuades the cook, who somewhat resembles Max, to stand behind the frame and be Max's reflection. This gag, developed by Max, has become a classic of film and even television borrowed by everyone from the Marx Brothers to Abbott and Costello to Red Skeleton.
Laugh with Max Linder
The Mystery of the King of Kinema
Elio Quiroga
Julio Perillán, Jean-Claude Carrière
In 1914, Max Linder (1883-1925) was a great star of silent cinema, the King of Cinema. But then World War I broke out, in which Max participated, and the whole world, and his life in particular, was changed forever. His daughter Maud has fought for seventy years to regain his legacy. This is his story…
The Mystery of the King of Kinema
En compagnie de Max Linder
Maud Linder
Max Linder, René Clair
Фильм предваряется кратким рассказом о Максе Линдере, и содержит три фрагмента кинофильмов с его участием — «Будьте моей женой», «Семь лет несчастий» и «Три мушкетера». Первые две ленты объединены в единое повествование со сквозным сюжетом о Максе — то герое-любовнике, то горе-любовнике, который, преодолевая преграды, с неподражаемым комизмом идет к своей цели — свадьбе с Мэри.
En compagnie de Max Linder